No Mo Drama Mama
Ack. Last week was one of those weeks.
I watered a plant which leaked onto some hardwood flooring, damaging 3 boards. Naturally, the replacement hardwood is obsolete. Long story short, the entire dining room floor needs to be REPLACED.
And then.
While soaking up sun, sipping a fru-fru drink, watching my son run through the sprinkler, I casually noticed the window well overflowing with water. A hose was on, running into the newly finished basement window FLOODING the newly finished bathroom.
Oh the CRAPNESS.
Theoretically, how hard should it be to watch a toddler, do laundry, make lunch and not cause excessive damage to your home?
I did, however, bake a cake today without burning the house down. Progress.
Please commiserate with me. Someone? I'll send ya some cake.
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oh i'm so sorry about all the problems in your house...nice cake though :) go enter my pay if forward giveaway, maybe you'll win and then you'll be happy :)
OH NO! That does not sound like a good few days AT ALL.
But on the upside, that cake looks delicious! I love the angle that you used to shoot it too...much more interesting that the traditional straight down shot.
Oh, the rain & pouring of it all. I'm so sorry. Our hardwood is in terrible shape, too - but I refuse to do anything to it until I know we're about to move. Is that a practice b-day cake for the wee one/
One woud THING. But it's not like that. Being at home with the child/ren is way more work than any "real job." You should get an award EVERY day you don't burn down the house and flood something. Seriously!
Oh you poor thing! What a horrible week! Glad you baked a cake successfully though. :) I love cake - YUM!
Oh no, so sorry about the water problems. Can you refinish the wood? Easier said than done. Yeah so I can relate to having one of those weeks. 5 of us in a small camper for 8 nights. It was stress on top of stress. I almost threw my camera in the ocean I was so frustrated. And my sweet 3 year old turned into the wicked witch of the west and mama lost her patience with her. Bad mom. So, I want some cake too!
I am sorry you had such a bad week, I hope this one is better. I wish I could help.
I hope the chocolate from the cake helped a little. It looks very Yummy!!!!
I swear, if it doesn't rain, it pours, or LEAKS!!! Best of luck!
Well, my week wasn't quite as bad, but I did find a dead rabbit in my backyard Friday.
that does not sound good at all! Water damage is the worst. If it is not taken care of immediately, it just keeps getting worse.
Now that cake....yummi-licious!
I think that cake is the answer to any problem, or any bad week. Love the sprinkles.
Wow. That's quite some accomplishments this week! I'm sorry it was sucktastic, but your cake looks amazing.
Now, can I have some?
OMG! You need more than a cake (unless it's a rum cake)! I hope your husband has a good sense of humor. "Honey, you'll never believe these great hardwood floors I found on sale!"
I hope the waterworks are over at your house SOON.
Peace - D
(formerly Momma)
We had a small issue at our house this weekend and I now have 2 large square holes cut out of my ceiling - waiting for the repairman/painter. I wanted to repaint the hall anyway so I am looking at it as a little nudge for me to stop procrastinating and get the project completed! Hope you can find a silver lining too!
Oh NO! Sounds like something that I would definately do.
On a happy note: That cake? Yummy! :)
Ah seriously that sucks some large donkey butt. Beautiful cake though!
For cake? Oh yeah, I'll commiserate! Someone's bday?
Sorry your week was so sucktastic! Surely this one will be better, friend.
Well, at least the cake looks good AND you can take GREAT pictures of it.
Hmmm. I want new flooring, maybe this is the way to go about FINALLY getting Hubby to agree to getting it done.
Hey, did you want a new floor? :)
That's NOTHING. I once drove my car THROUGH the car (front and back). Now THAT sucked!
That sucks. :( I feel for you...more than you can know. Does it help that my dog has been "secretly" peeing on my tomato plants? I wasn't watching her well enough I suppose....
NOne today. I had a really bad week once where our trampoline wrapped itself around a tree in a bad wind storm (APril, by the way _ STILL WAITING FOR REPLACEMENT PARTS), had a flat tire, got bad test results from my hubby's cancer MRI. It's all relative, ya know.
KEEP BELIEVING
Nice cake. Tomorrow will be even better.
Poor you. Sounds like a bad week indeed. At least you're a wonderful photographer! Oooooo chocolate!
Oh ... I had one of those days yesterday. Nothing really bad happened, but I was in the worst mood I've been in in 20 years! It was not fun for my family. Sorry about your water troubles - UGH! Pretty cake, though - looks yummy!
I wish you were going to San Francisco - you would be the very first person I would search out - REALLY!
Take care - Kellan
Yah, you got the really important stuff right- the cake and no children were harmed ;)
Hope you have better days ahead.....
Sorry about the week, but I hope the chocolate helped, TOTALLY cool shot!
Flooding rots. I know.
I'd love to commiserate with you. I like cake. :)
personally, i consider a week where i *don't* ruin a bit of my house a success. our house was built by monkeys so it's just a matter of time.
wait. i'm suppose to be commiserating. um. there there. have another slice of cake. (that cake looks AWESOME!) will i put the kettle on? i don't eat cake if there's no tea. ..
Oh honey, I know how you feel! Poor thing!
Oh, friend, that sounds just like MOST of my weeks.
Is it your birthday??? I saw candles on that cake....oh, puh-lease tell me you didn't have to bake your own cake or I am seriously going to have to come there and take you for a cocktail- a big one....
Actually it can be quite difficult! :-) But did you have another fru-fru drink before cleaning up the mess?
I am entirely too lazy for the suggestion I'm about to make, but could you sand the hardwood down to get rid of the water damage?
Don't worry...my first thought would be to pay some guy to replace everything too.
Oh the crapness indeed! I ruined a very expensive oriental carpet with a houseplant. I feel your pain. The cake does look nice, though. Happy Monday;)
The hardwood floor completely and totally sucks. I've seen that kind of damage and it's no fun and replacing the whole floor is often the only alternative. Feel for ya on that one.
And well, when I fill the horse water tanks my son runs over and grabs the hose whips it over his head like a rope and drenches everything in site. Then I walk away for what seems like five minutes, come back and the tank and the yard are flooding.
Yep been there on the flooding part most assuredly. ;)
and.. I will say that cake looks divine!
ACK! Oh no, replacing the hardwood is so not fun. Just get a rug...no one will know...well, except for us. ;) I have been known to ruin furniture before, though.
Oh you poor thing! keep slurping the fru fru drink and the pain will slowly fade away....you have my sympathies. I've flooded quite a few rooms in my day-most of the time running through to the basement damaging ceiling tiles.
I like cake!
OH NOOOO! That really stinks. I can't imagine. I was just on another blog reading about water damage.
The first week we moved into our house we heard dripping downstairs and the entire ceiling in our kitchen was soft. We had pails everywhere and called my husband's parents in the middle of the night to find out what to do. They advised poking holes in the ceiling and water just poured down.
That was almost five years ago and after multiple repairs, we FINALLY replaced that darn roof. What a pain.
No one tells you what a money pit this homeownership is :)
I flooded my basement this weekend too! But it's not finished... but now it smells like butt.
I'm not helping, am I....?
Please send cake. Choklet maks mi theenk betur.
Oh, yeah, totally not hard at all to do all those things...can you hear that sarcasm? I'm so sorry for you...and I almost feel bad to ask...but can I have some of that cake? It's got sprinkles! I love sprinkles.
I think just watching the toddler is hard. Great cake.
Keep your chin up Mama - you are doing a great job! Despite the little catastrophes everyone is healthy, happy and loved. This week will be better - sending you ((((hugs)))
Wow. Poor thing - that's a lot to deal with for one day; heck, that's a lot to deal with for one month!
Beautiful cake, though!
Oh no! And I was griping about spilled milk yesterday... I take it back ~ I take it all back! :)
Ack! Stupid water.
Hmmmm, what can I share? Oh! All three of my kids coloured on my son's wall last week with marker that doesn't wash off. The toddler I could forgive. But the 9 and 7 year olds? Come on.
It's not as bad as replacing flooring but it's my own teeny tiny albatross.
Life, what more can I say. You're just a kick ass mom with life happening all around you.
Double Yikes!! Your cake looks yummy tho... sprinkles on chocolate- my favorite! :D
I will! Our hosepipe sprung a leak while husband was cleaning car. The leak was strategically placed so that water squirted from the pipe in the garage through the door, across the hallway and into the dining room landing like a waterfall on my v expensive dining table in my newly decorated and carpeted dining room! C'est la vie!
HA If I had a fru fru drink, Ida just spit up all over myself. Sux to be you. That's all I got to say. Hang in there, drink more fru ~ you won't notice a thing. *smackies*
Well, the cake looks great! I'm sorry to hear about that comedy of errors though. Isn't that one of Murphy's Laws or something? I hope everything works out.
You have to replace the WHOLE FLOOR? Can't you just throw a rug over it or something? ;)
So crappy. Hopefully this week will be MUCH better. :)
I commiserate, I DO!! Now send some of that delicious cake my way! Is it yellow cake? I will die if it is yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I will lick my computer screen. YUMMMMMMM!!!!!
Girl, I can SO feel your pain...if it is yellow cake with chocolate icing I am SO THERE!!! Save me a piece, would ya?
Crazy goodness! ;) Sounds like one of my days. Amazingly, haven't had that kind of damage yet! Only ruined carpet so far. I feel lucky :)
That cake looks so good I almost licked my computer screen!
Sometimes being a homeowner is more trouble than it seems worth. UGH!
So glad it's the hubs' birthday in a couple of days so I have an excuse to eat cake too! YUM! : )
Here's my whine. I'm looking forward to that cake...your picture makes me want to eat my computer!!
Sounds like quite the week. I suggest something a little stiffer than a fru-fru drink... you know, for when you have to write out the check to the contractor.
Yikes. Sounds like you need another one of those drinks.
Serious commiseration from this end. I am so sorry. Truly motherhood is exploration into the quite impossible. I'm hoping for the very best of outcomes for you. Delicious angle on the cake.
OOoohhhh that cake looks awesome!! And yes, chocolate can make everything okay :)
Now do I get a piece? :0...
Looks like one of those 'my kind of a day' I had a few years back. You did manage to bake a yum cake after all that, Great show!!
Oh dear :(
But the cake does look great!! :)
If you're sending cake, then I will gladly lend a shoulder to cry on and even make up a story about how I once did the same thing. (I didn't, but if it will make you feel better to think I did, then I'll do it! Just for you! And cake!)
Crapness indeed.
I'll share some cake too. Num Num Num. MMM sprinkles.
bummer. I hate weeks like that. On the upside, you weren't hosting guests, too. Were you?
TM
It will take lots of cake to get me out of my funk! SEND. CAKE. NOW!
Okay so WHAT TIME should I be there for the cake?
I'm a FOOD BLOGGER for goddess sake, I NEED a piece of that damn cake!
I hope that delicious cake makes up for some of that horribleness?
We have family friends who installed a new hardwood floor, only to have their air conditioner leak on it and had to have it redone. Then something else happened -- I forget what -- and they had to have the floor done *again.*
Almost, almost makes you wish for the days of dirt floors....
Lady, haven't you learned? Don't get anything new when you have toddlers!
(spoken from experience, pain and a much slimmer wallet!)
That.sounds.horrid.
I'll take some cake please!
Remember that laundry post?
Still there.
And I didn't even make a cake.
commiserations - sheesh!!! that's one tough week. next week is BOUND to be better - law of averages
Oh my goodness...I'm so sorry..I hope you have a better week! By the way love the cake...I can almost smell the frosting!
Oh, pooh! That stinks about the hardwoods!
But that cake looks mighty good...
=)
We were separated at birth, you and I.
Oh no. No, no, no.
I want to trump that story to make you feel better ... but then again I don't want to have a story that trumps it, 'ya know?
So sorry. Karma will get me soon I imagine.
*hugs* I hop it got better for you...and if not at least the cake made it a little more bearable. ;)